Friday, October 29, 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

A helpless unidentified Western couple were mocked by locals when they decided they wanted to get their marriage vows renewed at the Vilu Reef resort in the Maldives. After the video of their 'ceremony' got some attention on Youtube, police took matters in their hands and are now investigating it.

The amateur film of the ceremony, posted on the video sharing website Youtube a few days ago, shows the couple sitting in a makeshift shelter on the beach, surrounded by local people.

The bride is wearing a white dress and carrying a bouquet, while incense, official looking documents and wedding rings lie on the table in front of them.

"Your marriage is not a valid one. You are not the kind of people who can have a valid marriage. One of you is an infidel. The other, too, is an infidel - and we have reason to believe - an atheist, who does not even believe in an infidel religion," the Minivan newspaper quotes him as saying.

"You fornicate and make a lot of children. You drink and you eat pork. Most of the children that you have are marked with spots and blemishes. These children that you have are bastards."

The camera focuses on the paperwork in front of him, which local media say was not a marriage document but employment contracts - he then begins to read from these.

The celebrant also makes references to bestiality, sexual diseases and "frequent fornication by homosexuals".

Friday, October 29, 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

You're going to meet some pot-smoking people there. Dallas NBC-5 TV reporter Newy Scruggs was reporting from McCovey Cove in San Francisco this Wednsday when a bunch of Giants fans interrupted him by smoking weed in his near vecinity.

Friday, October 29, 2010

This 29-year-old guy from Brooklyn has a fetish and he is pursuing it. In a very useful manner: he's out in Union Square every day, from 2 to 6 PM, where he lets you sit on his face. All in the name of world peace.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

Alexandra V. Tobias, 22, was arrested after the January death of 3-month-old Dylan Lee Edmondson. She told investigators she became angry because the baby was crying while she was playing a computer game called FarmVille on the Facebook social-networking website.

Tobias told investigators that she shook the baby, smoked a cigarette to compose herself and then shook him again. She said the baby may have hit his head during the shaking.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Casey Weldon made these portraits of Bill Murray as characters from Wes Anderson's movies, others than the ones played by Bill Murray, for Bad Dads, an upcoming Wes Anderson-themed art show in San Francisco.

The characters:

Max Fischer from Rushmore (Jason Schwartzman); Chas Tenenbaum from The Royal Tenenbaums (Ben Stiller); Anne-Marie Sakowitz from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (Robyn Cohen); Margot Helen Tenenbaum from The Royal Tenenbaums (Gwyneth Paltrow); Francis from The Darjeeling Limited (Owen Wilson); Richie Tenenbaum from The Royal Tenenbaums (Luke Wilson).

Thursday, October 28, 2010

One giant leap towards robot world domination: Actroid-F, a super-realistic human-like robot developed by Kokoro Co. Ltd. and ATR and coming strainght from the depths of the uncanny valley, was launched earlier this month in Tokyo. Its function is to work in hospitals as a caretaker and it is "supposed to give patients a heightened sense of security".

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Only in Mexico:

The entire police force of a small northern Mexican town quit after gunmen attacked their recently inaugurated headquarters, according to local reports on Wednesday.

Los Ramones Mayor Santos Salinas said nobody was injured in Monday night's attack, during which gunmen fired more than 1,000 bullets at the building's facade, according to Noroeste newspaper's website. Six grenades, of which three detonated, were also flung at the building, the newspaper reported.

All 14 members of the force reportedly resigned Tuesday. Nobody answered the phones at Salinas' offices, according to The Associated Press.

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Here's a clip form the 1928 Charlie Chaplin movie The Circus, discovered by George Clarke. In it, you can see a woman who appears to be talking on a mobile phone. It's got a lot of attention on Youtube and people are saying it's a time traveller.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

To promote the Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy, actors Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Mary Steenburgen, director Robert Zemeckis and the theme song singer Huey Lewis reunited on the Today Show yesterday.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Razorba is the convenient, do it yourself, painless and embarrassment free solution to back hair removal. The Razorba is the patented razor handle wand that holds your favorite razor, ergonomically designed and tested by men with back hair. It solves the problem of back hair by letting you shave at your convenience. It works with any standard razors (not included). It's quick and easy to insert or remove a razor. To use, simply insert a razor into the Razorba, apply shaving cream, and shave.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The world's most famous molusk, who correctly predicted a lot of the games at this year's World Cup in South Africa, was found dead this morning in his aquarium in Oberhausen Sea Life Centre, in Germany.

Stefan Porwoll, manager:

'He appears to have passed away peacefully during the night, of natural causes, and we are consoled by the knowledge that he enjoyed a good life here.'

'We may decide to give Paul his own small burial plot within our grounds and erect a modest permanent shrine.'